Re: History completion

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

tannhauser wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> i remember, that someday command history completion worked this way for
> me:
> "cat l<arrow-up>" got me all variations that actually started with "cat
> l", like "cat lol" and so on. right now, i just get all old variations
> of "cat", the parameters are ignored.
> 
> i hope you get my point, my english ist kind of rusty at the moment.

There are two different commands:  history-beginning-search-backward is
what you want, history-search-backward is what you've got.

You need something like

bindkey '\e[A' history-beginning-search-backward
bindkey '\e[B' history-beginning-search-forward

assuming your arrow keys send the normal sequence (start a "read" command
and then type the key to check, then ^C).  (You can supposedly get this
information from "echotc" or "echoti" but they often lie.)

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